Rating: 4.0★
Few war films carry the weight of historical testimony quite as heavily as Come and See. Released in 1985 and set during the Nazi occupation of Belarus in 1943, the film is rooted in events that were still raw memory for many Soviet citizens at the time of its production.
Rating: 4.0★
Tourism, as an industry, generates somewhere in the region of ten per cent of global GDP and employs one in ten people on the planet. Those are staggering numbers, and yet the conversation about what mass tourism actually does to the places it touches, the communities it displaces, the ecosystems
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Marking Danny Glover at 80: a look back across Danny's career through the films I've reviewed.
Rating: 2.5★
The Aztec death whistle is one of those historical curiosities that sounds almost too good to be true. Unearthed by archaeologists in Mexico during the 1990s, these small clay instruments shaped like skulls produce a sound variously described as a human scream, a howling wind, or something altogether harder to
Rating: 4.5★
There is a particular kind of filmmaker who treats cinema less like storytelling and more like controlled detonation, and Josh Safdie is firmly in that camp. After cutting his teeth on scrappier, street-level fare alongside his brother Benny, including the brothers' breakthrough with Uncut Gems (2019), Josh steps
Rating: 2.0★
Dominica, the small Eastern Caribbean island not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, sits in a curious position when it comes to cinema. With a population of under 75,000 and no established domestic film industry to speak of, the country's total cinematic output amounts to a
Rating: 3.0★
Trojan Records was never just a record label. Founded in 1968 and named after the Duke Reid sound system truck that had rattled through the streets of Kingston, it became the primary channel through which ska, rocksteady and reggae flowed from Jamaica into the living rooms, youth clubs and dance
Rating: 3.0★
Short-form documentary has long occupied an uneasy space in cinema, respected in festival circles and often overlooked everywhere else. The thirteen-minute runtime is its own kind of discipline: there is no room for padding, no space to bury a weak idea under running time. When it works, the
Rating: 3.0★
Horror remakes are a risky business at the best of times, and the early 2000s were full of Hollywood studios eyeing up Japanese genre cinema with the kind of enthusiasm that did not always translate well to screen. Ringu, Hideo Nakata's 1998 adaptation of Koji Suzuki's
Rating: 2.0★
The crack cocaine epidemic that swept through American cities during the 1980s and into the 1990s is one of the most consequential and contested chapters in recent United States history. Its origins, its spread, and the role of various government agencies in either enabling or ignoring it remain subjects of
Rating: 2.0★
West African cinema of the 1970s remains one of the least-documented corners of film history for most European and North American audiences, and Benin in particular barely registers on most people's mental map of global filmmaking. By the early 1970s, the francophone West African film scene was
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Spirited Away (2001) at twenty-five: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
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